# Password cannot be changed because it contains quotes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [May 6, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111 "2022-05-06T10:29:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@frankmehlhop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankmehlhop)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/1 "2022-05-06T10:29:18Z")
When I generate elastic I got a password which includes quotes. ( like 'xxxxx"xxxx' )
This is hard to use in code (C#) so I like to change the password.
But there I get exception because the quotes too.
**How can I change the password with quotes in it?**
doing:
```auto
POST /_security/user/elastic/_password
{
"xxxxx\"xxxx" : "secret"
}
```
I get:
```auto
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "parse_exception",
"reason" : "failed to parse change password request. unexpected field [xxxxx\"xxxx]"
}
],
"type" : "parse_exception",
"reason" : "failed to parse change password request. unexpected field [xxxxx\"xxxx]"
},
"status" : 400
}
```
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### Author:  [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/2 "2022-05-06T11:01:46Z")
> [@frankmehlhop](#):
>
> When I generate elastic I got a password which includes quotes
You mean the auto generated password that you get on first run ? This should not happen as we would not include these characters in the generated password. Are you certain that this is the password ?
In any case you can reset the password for the elastic user if you have access to the file system of the node by running `bin/elastisearch-reset-password` without passing the existing password as a parameter
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### Author:  [@frankmehlhop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankmehlhop)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/3 "2022-05-06T11:23:22Z")
Hi Ioannis,
I tried this also before.
Looks like that:
```auto
>elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic
ERROR: Failed to determine the health of the cluster.
```
And yes the auto generated password for the user elastic includes the quotes.
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### Author:  [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/4 "2022-05-06T12:47:25Z")
> [@frankmehlhop](#):
>
> And yes the auto generated password for the user elastic includes the quotes.
The code that generates the password is here : [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/tool/CommandUtils.java#L23](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/x-pack/plugin/security/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/security/tool/CommandUtils.java#L23) and it is impossible for it to generate one that contain quotes as `"` is not part of the character set that is used for the password generation./
> [@frankmehlhop](#):
>
> ```auto
> ERROR: Failed to determine the health of the cluster.
>
> ```
It looks like your cluster is not Green and your cannot interact with it until you fix that first. The `elasticsearch.log` file would contain pointers as to what is wrong with your cluster. Please take a look there.
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### Author:  [@frankmehlhop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankmehlhop)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/5 "2022-05-06T12:59:26Z")
> [@ikakavas](#):
>
> elasticsearch.log
Thank you Ioannis! 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/password-cannot-be-changed-because-it-contains-quotes/304111/6 "2022-06-03T12:59:57Z")
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